Microsoft launched iPhone App

Finally, Microsoft has launched an IM app for the iPhone, just a few hours before the launch of Apple's fourth version of iPhone operating system (iOS4). Windows Live Messenger for iPhone includes many key features that users expect from an IM app, reports Jessica Dolcourt of cnet.

The new IM app includes features like social networking and e-mail. It provides one screen to Windows Live helping users to update their status. There is also a button that takes the users to their e-mail in-box.

There is another feature in the app that enables the users to add friends, to chat and to send e-mails. The chat screen allows open conversation and helps the users to switch among them. There are options in the last screen allowing users to upload photos, take new ones and view their windows Live Gallery with it. In Addition, the screen also enables users to tag photographs.

There are some features that need to be materialized. Though the app has triple checking credentials, logging off, signing back in, and reinstalling the app with some more reboots thrown in, the app shows the user as Someone on Windows Live, despite having uploaded photos of the users.